5 Adelaide Road, Ipswich, IP4 5PR

5 Adelaide Road is a detached house in Ipswich (IP4 5PR). It has a recorded floor area of 128 m² (around 1378 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1950-1966 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (April 2016) shows a D (score 57), a step below the typical UK home. When first surveyed in January 2016 the rating was E, the property has climbed 1 band since. Between certificates, lighting went from Good to Very Good. The recommended improvements would push it to C (score 75). The latest certificate is from April 2016, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

Held since June 1997 — that's 29 years off the open market, well above the local norm. Only one transfer is on record with HM Land Registry, suggesting it has stayed in the same hands for a long time. At 128 m² the property is well over the postcode median (90 m² across 7 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. Today's modelled estimate of £436,000 sits 445% above the 1997 sale of £80,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£58/sq ft) was about 75.6% below the postcode norm.